Gold - Brossura

Cleave, Chris

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0385677170 ISBN 13: 9780385677172

Casa editrice: Anchor Canada, 2013

Riassunto

A heart-pounding novel about the extremes to which people will go for success, from the bestselling author of Little Bee.

In the tradition of his beloved previous novel, Little Bee, Chris Cleave again gives us an elegant, funny, passionate story about friendship, marriage, parenthood, tragedy, and redemption. This time, the setting is the London Olympics. Gold is the story of two women, Zoe and Kate, world-class cyclists who have been friends and rivals since their first day of elite training years ago. They have loved, fought, betrayed, forgiven, lost, consoled, triumphed, and grown up together. Now, on the eve of London 2012, their last Olympics, the two must compete for the one remaining spot on their team. In doing so, the women will be tested to their physical, mental and emotional limits. They will confront each other and their own mortality, and be asked to decide: What will you sacrifice for the people you love?

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Recensione:

"Cleave again displays a remarkable aptitude for rendering female characters with startling realism, one of the strengths of his previous novels. . . . In these breathless portrayals of sport and spirit, Gold illuminates the stories of courage, loss, and commitment that are behind each of the seemingly invincible Olympians we root for every four years."
—Elle Magazine

"Friendship, rivalry, redemption, loyalty, health and basic goodness are all deftly explored in this novel. . . . [Cleave] is at his best when he describes the physical and emotional sacrifices and the pain that must be endured by those who pursue cycling, and likely any sport, at an elite level."
—Winnipeg Free Press

L'autore:

CHRIS CLEAVE is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. His first novel, Incendiary, was published in 20 countries, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
His second novel, Little Bee, was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Costa Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. In Canada, it was a national bestseller, and a reader and book-club favourite. Chris Cleave lives in London with his French wife and three mischeivous Anglo-French children.

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• Editore: Anchor Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0385677170
• ISBN 13: 9780385677172
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336